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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Casting News: Outlander Star Joins The Forsytes, Rings of Power Adds Trio and More
The Forsytes just added a second season to its stateside run, and it'll bring an Outlander star with it. Richard Rankin has joined the TV adaptation of John Galsworthy's books, which was renewed for Season 2 at Masterpiece on PBS Thursday, the network announced. More from TVLine Jesse Williams' Amazon Action-Drama Sets Release Date - Also, Watch a Trailer for Hotel Costiera Law & Orderverse Dream Team Results: The Cops and Lawyers You Want on Your Perfect Squad Bonnaroo 2025 Livestream: How to Watch Olivia Rodrigo, Luke Combs, Vampire Weekend and More Festival Performers Online Rankin, who plays Roger in Starz's time-travel drama, is one of three new Forsytes additions: Sarah Alexander (Pennyworth) and Nia Ashi (Bob Marley: One Love) also will join the cast. The series' ensemble includes Jack Davenport (The Morning Show), Tom Durant Prichard (Miss Scarlet), Naomi Frederick (Industry), Millie Gibson (Doctor Who), Justine Moore (Call the Midwife), Stephen Moyer (True Blood) and Eleanor Tomlinson (One Day). Per the Season 2 logline: 'In this next chapter the proud dynasty faces a new era of scandal, ambition, and shifting loyalties. As love, legacy and reputation collide, the cracks in the family's polished façade grow ever deeper.' Season 1 is slated to premiere on Masterpiece on PBS in 2026. In other recent casting news… * Season 3 of Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which recently began filming in the UK, has added Andrew Richardson (The Last O.G.) as a series regular, while Zubin Varla (Holby City) and Adam Young (EastEnders) will recur; no character details were made available. * Paradise Season 2 has added Sterling K. Brown's real-life wife Ryan Michelle Bathé — whose myriad credits include All Rise, The Endgame and First Wives Club — in an undisclosed guest role, Variety reports. * Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will host the 49th annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks special on NBC. Musical guests this year include Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Lenny Kravitz, Ava Max, Keke Palmer and Trisha Yearwood, while the fireworks musical score will be produced by The Roots' Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson and James Poyser, and feature a live vocal performance by DeBose. Hit the comments with your thoughts on the castings above! Best of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Casting News: Outlander Star Joins The Forsytes, Rings of Power Adds Trio and More
The Forsytes just added a second season to its stateside run, and it'll bring an Outlander star with it. Richard Rankin has joined the TV adaptation of John Galsworthy's books, which was renewed for Season 2 at Masterpiece on PBS Thursday, the network announced. More from TVLine Soaps Shocker: Erika Slezak Joins General Hospital! Here's What We Know So Far The Pitt Season 2 Adds Four, Including a Familiar Face From Breaking Bad Save the Dates: Brett Goldstein's Apple Movie, Hallmark's Christmas at Sea and More Rankin, who plays Roger in Starz's time-travel drama, is one of three new Forsytes additions: Sarah Alexander (Pennyworth) and Nia Ashi (Bob Marley: One Love) also will join the cast. The series' ensemble includes Jack Davenport (The Morning Show), Tom Durant Prichard (Miss Scarlet), Naomi Frederick (Industry), Millie Gibson (Doctor Who), Justine Moore (Call the Midwife), Stephen Moyer (True Blood) and Eleanor Tomlinson (One Day). Per the Season 2 logline: 'In this next chapter the proud dynasty faces a new era of scandal, ambition, and shifting loyalties. As love, legacy and reputation collide, the cracks in the family's polished façade grow ever deeper.' Season 1 is slated to premiere on Masterpiece on PBS in 2026. In other recent casting news… * Season 3 of Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which recently began filming in the UK, has added Andrew Richardson (The Last O.G.) as a series regular, while Zubin Varla (Holby City) and Adam Young (EastEnders) will recur; no character details were made available. * Paradise Season 2 has added Sterling K. Brown's real-life wife Ryan Michelle Bathé — whose myriad credits include All Rise, The Endgame and First Wives Club — in an undisclosed guest role, Variety reports. * Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will host the 49th annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks special on NBC. Musical guests this year include Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Lenny Kravitz, Ava Max, Keke Palmer and Trisha Yearwood, while the fireworks musical score will be produced by The Roots' Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson and James Poyser, and feature a live vocal performance by DeBose. Hit the comments with your thoughts on the castings above! Best of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
Telegraph
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
The elderly need to be recognised for their skills, not as a burden
Old age,' wrote Lev Trotsky, 'is one of the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man'. It is a rare example of a Trotskyite sentiment with which many of us can empathise. But while ageing generally comes as a disagreeable surprise to individuals, it is only quite recently that wider society has had the same problem. From Trollope to Galsworthy, 19th-and early 20th-century novels are intensely concerned with dynasties. The dramas of the Pallisers and the Forsytes are generational: the aspiring young struggle to make their way in the world; having made it, they find that the world has moved on. But the elder Forsytes and Pallisers are not negligible. Those aunts and dowagers, matriarchs and patriarchs, may have moved aside from the heat of the action, but they remain an influence. Those novels reflect a society in which the intergenerational family was the basic unit of communities. Now familial and community bonds are loosened, if not quite unknit. The birth rate is declining, the numbers of elderly increasing, and with that demographic shift comes a change in the perception of the old as a problem: a drain on the NHS; incorrigible occupiers of houses too large for them; and a perennial annoyance to governments that have failed to get a grip on the social care system. Next month the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, will unveil a 10-year plan to reform the NHS. It includes a strategic shift towards 'community-based preventative approaches', including the restoration of social bonds between the old and the young. Here the UK could learn from countries such as Japan, Germany and the Netherlands, where intergenerational initiatives have been in place for decades. A 1983 Japanese programme recommended the formation of mixed groups of old and young to pursue activities such as gardening, environmental maintenance and Haiku composition. The Japanese approach emphasises an expectation that elders will be active contributors to their communities, rather than recipients of care. Not coincidentally, the Japanese experiment with automated elder care consigned to 'carebots', proved unpopular and problematic. The UK, which invested £34 million in robots for adult social care in 2019, should beware Mark Zuckerberg's idea that AI can be a substitute for friendship. Many admirable charitable initiatives exist to encourage relationships between young and old (familiar to those of us fortunate enough to have had loving grandparents). The Health Secretary has indicated that his department is exploring similar policies. Perhaps his officials have already noted the Unesco report on such schemes in the Netherlands, where older people resented being seen as recipients of care, and wanted to be recognised as people with knowledge and competence. We have a tendency in this country to celebrate our elders as 'exceptional' and 'marvellous' if they continue to exercise professional expertise and curiosity about the world. Sir David Attenborough and Sir Norman Foster, still producing remarkable work at 99 and 89, come to mind. They are exceptional in talent, as they always were. But within the UK's older population resides an untapped repository of knowledge, energy and skills. I suspect the Health Secretary's plans for community hubs are already formed. But one day, he, too will find that he is unexpectedly old. So before he announces his policy, he might care to reflect on what he would like his own life to be at 80, 90 and beyond. Animal spirits It is an extraordinary moment when a wild creature suddenly seems to trust you. Correspondents to The Telegraph 's letters pages have recorded their engagements with friendly robins and blackbirds. In my own garden, I am followed about by an intrepid young blackbird who scoffs dug-up invertebrates from my hand. Is it all about the food? Undoubtedly. But animal communication remains irresistibly fascinating. We are (or should be) long past the days when unfortunate apes were 'trained' in human sign language. But the boundaries between ourselves and the natural world seem tantalisingly permeable. 'When I am playing with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me?' wondered the Renaissance essayist, Michel de Montaigne. How indeed? But the assertively expressed views of robins, blackbirds (and, indeed, cats) are a source of great pleasure to their largely uncomprehending recipients.
